3 dear friends connected with Lynne after long absences. They talked about skiing, divorces, kids, schools, playgrounds, back alleys. I felt closure from each visitor. Lynne listened. She reached out to stop them when we had to go. Tags: Alzheimer’s Dementia Caregiver Caregiving father-daught...
Dad comes up to mom and whispers, “next time a recipe calls for white wine, I’ll go fetch it for you honey. Anytime. Thank you for cooking on such a hot day.” Jungmin shouts out, “Thank you for cooking Umma!” Mom’s entire being smells of vinegar, but she feels blessed thi...
And she was, and gave us extra special hugs that Christmas Eve as she knew what had happened while we were in Rome, and wasn’t expecting us to go shopping to find her a leather coat. It’s the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in a couple of weeks, and I don’t think anyone will ...
Back in February, we took the crew to theirfirst movie in a theater.We have a discount theater nearby and tickets are a whopping $1.15 each, and kids under three are free. Seriously, it cost us $2.30 for six of us to see a movie in a theater. Unsure of how they’d behave, we ...
Yet, now as a parent, my kids attend a private school where they are often one of two or three in a grade. I know, I know. What am I thinking? I evaluate this decision often but for a host of reasons that I’ll save for another post, I am back in a private school community ...
We are never finished products. We are works-in-progress. We are ever-evolving beings meant for continual, perpetual, even eternal growth. We are meant to learn and develop, overcome, improve and become ever more, line upon line, step by step, day by day, here a little, there a ...
Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day. My kids are 25 and 22 and they have had problems and failures and heartbreak, and also moments of joy and success. I think the most important thing I would wish you is that you give up any idea that there is a YardStick of Adulthood...